blues

saxophone

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

children's writer

poet

musician

teacher

screenwriter

innovator in the field of

poetry

is a genre that emerged from the spirit's need for some way to dance through the heavy mess.

That's how the blues emerged, by the way'/Our spirits needed a way to dance through the heavy mess./The music, a sack that carries the bone of those left alongside/The trail of tears when we were forced/To leave everything we knew by the way.

is human, with a tendency to be rowdy, edgy, talk too loud, bump into people, and say the wrong words at the wrong time, but then, you take a breath all the way from the center of the earth and blow. All that heartache is forgiven. All that love we humans carry makes a sweet, deep sound and we fly a little.

The saxophone is so human. Its tendency is to be rowdy, edgy, talk too loud, bump into people, say the wrong words at the wrong time, but then, you take a breath all the way from the center of the earth and blow. All that heartache is forgiven. All that love we humans carry makes a sweet, deep sound and we fly a little.

Joy Harjo

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